Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor,
Lol they semver’d the mass surveillance legislation. I can’t wait for Chat Control 6.7 to patch out all the remaining loopholes and enshittify.
Doesn’t affect email (broken by design w/o extensions), or truly E2EE protocols such as Signal or XMPP with OMEMO/GPG extension, but it’s going to net in all the people they wanted to net in anyway.